SETI Pixel Project Page

This is the site page for development of the SETI Net Cosmic Ray Pixel

I worked long and hard on the ERGO version 2 Cosmic Ray detector but it sort of petered out. Along the way I did learn allot about building a Arduino based system, GPS chips and how to program them, and by the way - Cosmic Rays.

The major stumbling block on the ERGO pixel was the use of the Geiger-Muller tubes for the ray detector. Other detectors made use of Photo Multiplier Tubes but these were expensive and required a high voltage supply so were not logical to use in a DIY desktop project. There seem no way out of it.

Now a new breed of detectors is coming on line now. These are
Silicon Photo Multipliers (SiPM's) that while expensive (about $100 each) have the advantage that they are solid state, run on a reasonable power supply voltage and are low current. I have decided to go with SiPM's.

I am going to base my design around the work done by CERT with the Cosmic Pi program and MIT with their Cosmic Watch project.. I plan to make good use of these two projects good, open source ideas and build my own SETI Cosmic Detector.

The plan:

Build two of the CosmicWatch machines -This will give me a baseline of working units.

Build a prototype - Use KiCAD to design a single unit that contains two SiPM's and two simulator blocks.